Local people doing extraordinary things
Picking up Chicks
31 August 2010
I served as a volunteer medical access driver for 13 years with
Neighborhood Senior Services. During this period I met and assisted
several hundred local residents, providing them rides to various health
services around the county and became good friends with many of them.
I usually drove two or three times each week, taking one to three hours
per trip. Most of my riders were elderly women, some of whom had never
learned to drive.
I had to resign a few years ago as my own eyesight began failing
and driving became more difficult for me, but I still look back with
satisfaction on all the people I helped over that period and all the
friends I made. Its a great way to help and even in old age it is a
nice way to "pick up chicks."
Up to his ears in bunnies and lovin' it!
26 April 2010
Tim Patino grew up in a broken family, shuffled back and forth between
his parents and without the love of a family pet many kids in similar
circumstances confide in, turn to for solace and share an unconditional
bond.
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A Real Leader
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23 December 2009
When you ask Girl Scout troop leader Jacquline Jeffery what keeps her motivated after 16 years, she says, “it‘s all about seeing girls grow, take on responsibility and rise to the challenge of being good leaders and good role models.” As a leader and manager of other volunteers, she has developed innovative ways to keep older girls involved in Girl Scouting beyond middle school.
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Al Feldt, a former volunteer with the Blueprint for Aging in Washtenaw County, presenting the concept of the Village Model at a local community meeting. Al founded a village in his own neighborhood, known as the Dexter-Miller Community. 